One major drawback to the javadoc annotation approach has been left out and that is attribute reuse. The maven-faces-plugin allows you to import XML fragments using XPath. So in Trinidad, onclick, onmouseover, onmouseout, etc. you can import one XML file and not have to re-define all these. But with the javadoc approach, you have to either one, try to hack the code to extend other classes, two have some weird interface usage to import these. Either way, the object hierarchy has to be hacked to get it to work.
Also, the java-annotation-javadoc approach is odd that code must be filled in. The Java files would have some sort of attribute definitions, but no body (I don't want to have to waste time writing setters & getters when I should only have to write a definition for an attribute). Personally, I much prefer the Trinidad approach, and I have found it easy to use, except for the *Template files (there has to be a better way than that as they are not IDE friendly). -Andrew
